id: 97141 accession number: 1916.780 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.780 updated: 2019-11-18 09:11:10.855000 Sketch for a Ceiling, 1750s. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.780 title: Sketch for a Ceiling title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1750s creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1759 current location: creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vII, no.10 (October 1912), cat. no. 26 (author, bryson Burroughs).
CMA, 1916: "The Inaugrual Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 37.
CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversry Exhibition," cat. no. 37.
CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" cat. no. 108.
Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Fine Art, 1978: "The Tiepolos, Painters to Princes and Prelates," ct. no. 22, illus. p. 79; Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts,
Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, October 29-December 15, 1991: "Artin the Age of Mozart," --- PROVENANCE Miner K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris date: 1858 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Liberty E. Holden date: 1884 footnotes: citations: Holden Collection date: 1916 footnotes: citations: 1858 Miner K. Kellogg, 1814-1889 (Paris, France) date: footnotes: citations: 1884-1916 Mrs.Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This small, quickly painted picture is typical of the sketches Tiepolo made as studies for larger compositions. When completed full-scale on a ceiling, works like these give the impression of a massive window, through which one can see angels or mythological beings floating among the clouds. Although we know from the work's shape that it was a study for a ceiling painting, it is not related to any of Tiepolo's finished architectural decorations. Tiepolo used such sketches to explore design problems, experiment with form and color, or give his clients an idea of how a finished project would look. With the help of a large workshop, which included two of his sons, Tiepolo completed a number of painted ceilings and decorative schemes across Europe. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 424; Mentioned: p. 425 url: Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. page number: Mentioned: p. 35-36, cat. no. 38 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n45 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 85, p 69, Reproduced url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.780/1916.780_full.tif